A North Korean flag is held as players from North Korea and South Korea listen to national anthems before a match in the East Asian Cup in Seoul, July 21.

The North Koreans are coming again.

Pyongyang said late Monday that both its men’s and women’s soccer teams would participate in the Asian Games to be held in Incheon, South Korea, later this year.

The announcement marks a continuation of interaction on the sports field even as ties between the two Koreas remain unstable. Last week, North Korea warned of an “unimaginable holocaust” if South Korea went ahead with military drills with the U.S. planned to begin next month.

North Korea won the women’sEast Asian Cup soccer tournament in South Korea last July.

The North’s state news agency didn’t say whether it would send teams for other sports at the Incheon games, which will run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4.

North Korea sent almost 200 athletes to the 2002 edition of the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, as well as a squad of cheerleaders. The North didn’t take part in the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, or the 1988 Summer Olympics in the South Korean capital.